Former President Donald Trump admitted Wednesday that he told the Secret Service he wanted to go to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a controversial statement by a former White House aide before a House committee. It depicted a different tone of events. He investigated the attack.
In remarks at a campaign rally in Waukesha, Wis., Wednesday afternoon, the former president spoke with Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who served as a key witness in the high-profile committee hearing. strongly criticized the explanation. Held in 2022.
“Remember the guy who said I attacked a Secret Service agent in front of his car?” Trump said, referring to Hutchinson’s testimony. “That’s not my contract, I’m a lover, not a fighter.”
When Hutchinson learned that President Trump would not be taken to the Capitol, where a crowd of supporters had gathered, she got behind the wheel of an armored SUV and tried to lunge at security guards, staff told her. He testified.
“This is outrageous,” President Trump said Wednesday. “I was sitting in the back and you know what I said? I said, ‘I see a lot of people walking and I’d like to go there.’ They said, “Sir, you had better not do that.” I said, “Well, I’d like to do that.” […] No matter what you think. ”
“That was the general tone of the conversation,” Trump added.
Immediately after Hutchinson’s 2022 testimony, the former president disparaged her in a post on Truth Social, saying he had heard “very negative things about her (completely fake and ‘leakers’)” about her. He said he knew “very little” about it.
Hutchinson’s testimony came under scrutiny after sources said two witnesses may testify under oath that the incident never happened.
A Republican-led House committee investigating the Jan. 6 commission released a report in March that accused Hutchinson of discounting testimony from other witnesses who did not corroborate his account.
